Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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A story as old as federated social media, in 3 parts (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Mod of !anarchism@slrpnk.net posts a great Greta Thunberg quote, but then tries to use it to justify not voting in the upcoming US election
Multiple people point out that’s very clearly not what she meant
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Using your mod powers to decide who is allowed and not allowed to speak is not very anarchist of you, @mambabasa@slrpnk.net

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You’re attacking SLRPNK for being covert Republican operatives

I didn't say that. I said Mambabasa is. I think the rest of the Slrpnk team is supporting him in this because he identifies himself as an anarchist and fits in with your team.

He posted a meme about Jill Stein, which is a weird thing for an anti-electoralist to do, and then denied ever having done that and claimed not to know who "this Jill person" was, when I asked him about it. He's been assaulting various people in the comments for all kinds of various imaginary things.

Most of the anarchists and others in this comment section who looked at his conduct, and his posting pattern, haven't been at all in favor of what he's doing. I don't know if anyone but me thinks he is deliberately posting political propaganda. I definitely think that. I think the rest of you are being overly kind to someone who is hijacking the community you're providing so they can propagandize it, giving a bad name to anarchism by their overall conduct, and not really promoting anarchism for the last few weeks, so much as let's-elect-Trump ism. Some other clues such as posting Greta Thunberg's quote and insisting that it means we can vote for third parties since it doesn't matter who wins the election are present as well.

You can think what you like. But yes, that is what I am attacking him for.

you’re simultaneously commenting in another YPTB thread that’s calling us out for being covert Democrats

You missed the "/s"?

I was clearly making fun of the OP of that post for complaining about Slrpnk being covert Democrats, when Slrpnk is about the furthest thing possible from that, and the issue was clearly OP. It seems like what I said was widely understood to mean that within the comments.

[–] Five 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You missed the “/s”?

No. I understand your sarcasm. I'm confused by your sincerity.

Why do you think the OP mistook SLRPNK for Democrats?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no idea. If I had to guess, I would say that index’s history pegs them as one of the accounts that posts almost exclusively “why the Democrats and specifically the Democrats are bad” content, along with being aggressively toxic to anyone who has anything to say about it, and they were banned for the toxicity and then proceeded to whine about it using whatever random bad-faith nonsense came to mind. In this case, what came to mind was the well-worn trope that the mods were brainwashed by liberal propaganda and were censoring anything truthful to try to push their program of getting Kamala Harris elected.

I don’t know any of that for sure of course, and I didn’t care enough to do more than a brief investigation. I just thought it was funny that they were applying reflexive accusations of liberal whitewashing against a target that was even sillier than most of the targets that it gets applied against.

[–] Five -1 points 2 weeks ago

I didn’t care enough to do more than a brief investigation

Apathy and lack of curiosity towards people who think differently from you is a virtue, don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. Never change, Phil.